Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 3.6 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 258% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (21.1 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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